Parrot wrote:Hey Xre, thanks for the Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver, I've been kind of wanting one of those but whenever I've looked before they've been sold out. I'm glad you managed to find one!

You're most welcome, sir... If y'all see any posts from Parrot that you just can't read, it's cause he's writing in UV ink!

Dave Re"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives." Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"...we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity." - George Johnstone, addressing the British House of Commons, October 26, 1775 (sound familiar?)

Hold it - someone's hacked DBTrek's account... This post is totally out of character for him...

Dave Re"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives." Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"...we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity." - George Johnstone, addressing the British House of Commons, October 26, 1775 (sound familiar?)

I got my Secret Santa gift with the mail today. Thank you RobRoyDude for the two boxes of Capn' Crunch and the three local newspapers. Now I just got to get over a case of flu, because the last thing I can eat when sick is sweet stuff. I'm gonna put a blanket over the boxes of cereal till I'm well again, and then I'm gonna get all nostalgic. Just hoping it tastes as good as it did in 1990-93, or so.

And now that I got my gift, and especially considering I didn't have to guess who it was, and since the one I gave a SS gift seemed glad of it, I was the secret santa of DB. I tried searching for some kitchy lolcat-reference funny thing, but decided against because simply searching for kitchy presents made me want to kill myself..

Murder is the word for an illegitimate, unjustified killing of another human being. Theft is the word for an illegitimate, unjustified appropriation of property. No one will agree to defending murder or theft. Everyone will agree to having an idea of a justified and unjustified killing, and a legitimate and illegitimate appropriation of property. One stops a conversation, another starts a conversation.

Ah, thanks dude!Good choices all around.The Emrgence book is fascinating, and the Giants, Monsters and Dragons Encyclopedia comes in handy when I'm scribbling my horror/sci-fi short stories and dreaming of the day I submit a few for publication.

Of course. . . if I become Emperor of North America I won't have time for such frivolous pursuits, but it's always good to have a back-up plan.

You're welcome, DB. I picked out the monster encyclopedia based on a search of your posts where I tried finding out if you had any particular historical time period or subject you preferred. When I couldn't find anything, I just went with "something different". ;P As I write in Kath's thread about ants, I knew the Emergence book and remembered vaguely something about you working at a hospital with computers, and of course that you had a BA in history. Figured all that combined might make you interested in Emergence. Glad my keen deductive skills paid off.

Murder is the word for an illegitimate, unjustified killing of another human being. Theft is the word for an illegitimate, unjustified appropriation of property. No one will agree to defending murder or theft. Everyone will agree to having an idea of a justified and unjustified killing, and a legitimate and illegitimate appropriation of property. One stops a conversation, another starts a conversation.